Snapchat will no longer promote President Trump’s content in its Discover section, the company says, adding that it will not “amplify voices who incite racial violence.”
“We are not currently promoting the president’s content on Snapchat’s Discover platform," the company said."We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on Discover. Racial violence and injustice have no place in our society and we stand together with all who seek peace, love, equality, and justice in America.
The tweet included the phrase “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” a reference to a racist quote fromThe tweet was then reposted to the White House’s official Twitter account, and subsequently enforced with the same actions from Twitter.Facebook employees stagedon Monday for what employees deemed insufficient action taken on the president’s inflammatory posts.
The latest posts to Trump’s Snapchat feature were the last few words of Trump’s statement from the White House’s Rose Garden on Monday afternoon. In his address, he claimed to have “strongly recommended to every governor to deploy the National Guard in sufficient numbers that we dominate the streets.”
The Snapchat post then features a news clip of Trump walking from the Rose Garden to St. John’s Episcopal Church. The next Snapchat post shows the president holding up a bible in front of the church.— a crackdown that has since become a flashpoint in the national debate about police violence.
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